Etruscan terracotta votive female bust 3rd-2nd C. BCE

"With lidded articulated eyes and elaborately coiffed hair, centre- parted and falling into ringlets on either side, wearing large inverted pyramidal earrings and a necklace of large pendants decorated with relief figures of various heroes and deities, a mantle pulled up over the back of her head, preserving traces of red, pink and yellow pigment".

Etruscan terracotta votive female bust 3rd-2nd C. BCE. 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high. Provenance with Galerie Bader, Lucerne, 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland.


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